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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicVisa-free travel

Topic: visa-free travel

Uzbekistan plans to add India to visa-free list, treble number of Indian visitors by 2030

The effort is part of the country's 2030 national development vision. In 2024, 72,300 Indian nationals visited Uzbekistan.

China offers visa-free entry for citizens of France, Germany, Italy to revive its tourism sector

From 1 Dec this year to 30 Nov, 2024, citizens from those nations visiting for business, tourism, visiting relatives and friends, or transiting for 15 days will not need visa.

After opening borders, China presses Singapore on bilateral visa-free travel deal, says Beijing’s embassy

There were 3.6 million Chinese visitors to Singapore in 2019, more than any other country, who spent a combined S$4.1 billion ($3.09 billion).

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.